The psychologist looks out from the brightly lit stage and asks the audience, “How many of you have been affected by infidelity? As a family member? As the one who is cheating? As the betrayed partner?” The…

This week I read: Female entrepreneurship rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are the highest in the world, according to a new report that says women’s entrepreneurial activity is increasing globally. Africa doesn’t need white tech entrepreneurs…

This week I read: This Interesting article on the academic core task and the next generation academics by Andrew J. Hoffman on The Conversation. Incredible look into the future: Global digital identity – goodbye national passports?…

This week I read: This interesting article by Salim Virani on usability of websites in Africa:If Africa is leading mobile web usage, why are so many African websites non-mobile? A discussion started by me(!) on Twitter when…

My dear friend Natalya Delgado Chegwin has in my view a very interesting take on the literary legacy of García Márquez, my favourite author who recently passed away. In her view, “I commend whoever has read his novels,…

He was like a talkative relative, one who remembered really ancient times with daguerreotypes and railways and horrible diseases and cousins and aunties. He opened doors to far away lands, noisy bars and shadowy back…

I have a handful of emails in my inbox about events with Ghanaian/Nigerian/Afropolitan writer and filmmaker Taiye Selasi taking place on three different days in three different venues this week. Her book Ghana Must Go…